Mr Wilder and Me
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Beschrijving
A
satisfyingly sweeping
novel that still manages to push the form in new directions.
As good as anything he's written - a novel to cherish
A
satisfyingly sweeping
novel that still manages to push the form in new directions.
As good as anything he's written - a novel to cherish
An account of Billy Wilder's later years that
sweeps beautifully from Hollywood to Greece and London
while all the time reflecting on the horrors of 20th-century Europe
This elegiac novella is
utterly charming, deeply poignant and ultimately uplifting
. And yes, it would make a great film
An insightful and moving story about how memories can or cannot be passed down through the generations
Jonathan Coe was born in Birmingham in 1961. He is the award-winning, bestselling author of fifteen novels, including
What a Carve Up!, The Rotters’ Club, Middle England
and, most recently,
The Proof of My Innocence
. He has won
the Costa Novel Award, the Prix du Livre Européen, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the Prix Médicis Étranger and the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize, among many others. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His work has been translated into twenty-two languages. Jonathan Coe lives in London.